David Rovics è un songwriter americano molto impegnato politicamente e socialmente ma anche - perché non dirlo? - non proprio brillantissimo nella scrittura dei brani. Per farla breve: questo folk minimale è davvero già sentito. E, o si è nati a Duluth o si fa la figura del "derivativo"... Comunque, va incoraggiato ----------- Stop ACTA
NEW SONG: „Steal This MP3‰ http://youtu.be/_Yu1DnTBFuE The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Big Pharma and other corporate scum have been holding secretive negotiations for years now to try to change the basic nature of the internet, in their never-ending quest to make yet more money. They claim they are doing this on behalf of working musicians, among others. As a member of the American Federation of Musicians I receive a mostly useless publication called International Musician every month. In this month's edition the union president is encouraging members to support legislation to protect Intellectual Property ˆ he doesn't even name which legislation we're supposed to support. Presumably any of it...? It's myopic, in my humble opinion. These are the same corporations who destroyed the once-thriving media landscape of the United States. The same corporations who lobbied (bribed) Congress to deregulate the media ˆ first under Reagan and then, even more broadly under the „liberal‰ Bill Clinton. The independent radio stations that once played a wide variety of music now primarily play pre-programmed „hits‰ provided by Clearchannel or Viacom. Untold thousands of journalists, musicians and others are out of work as a result of the massive consolidation of the media in the past several decades. And now they want us to believe they represent our interests. What utter garbage. If there is a silver lining to ACTA (the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) and other such legislation, it is this: if the corporate content providers are going to be suing, jailing and fining music fans for digital „theft,‰ if they are going to be confiscating equipment and bankrupting small businesses in their zeal to collect royalties for the very few musicians, actors, etc. who benefit from their cultural-killing schemes to dominate every corner of the global media, perhaps then the masses of people will look even more actively for independent music online -- and sales and interest in major label artists and Hollywood movies will continue to decline. This is my tentative prediction on what will happen if they succeed in passing ACTA. For artists, musicians, scientists, etc., doing the good work they do, making a living is essential, and there needs to be a way for them to do that. ACTA is not it. For more of my thoughts on the subject of copyright and this sort of legislation, see my essay published in Counterpunch in 2007, the RIAA vs. the World ˆ little has changed since then (except for the email address they include at the end of the article): http://www.counterpunch.org/2007/10/09/the-riaa-vs-the-world/ For more on why ACTA must be stopped, all the information you need is here: http://www.stopacta.info/ And here's another song from me which is part of a series on the subject, which I wrote earlier this month: „Why Don't They Play You On The Radio‰ http://youtu.be/r-8ENvhwMZQ David http://www.davidrovics.com -- If you would like to unsubscribe from this mailing list click on http://www.davidrovics.com/lists/?p=unsubscribe&uid=c3713a2426617213a0324ad9e517de9a To update your preferences and to unsubscribe visit http://www.davidrovics.com/lists/?p=preferences&uid=c3713a2426617213a0324ad9e517de9a Forward a Message to Someone http://www.davidrovics.com/lists/?p=forward&uid=c3713a2426617213a0324ad9e517de9a&mid=721 -- powered by phpList, www.phplist.com --
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